BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan

Subject: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:00 PM

Probably the war mongerers who love to use Afghanistan as their shining example of what a great humanitarian job the Bush administration is doing in Afghanistan after "liberating" the Afghan people from Taliban rule, and promising a "Marshall plan" to help the country recover, DON'T KNOW THAT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DIDN'T HAVE A SINGLE DIME IN IT FOR POST-TALIBAN RECONSTRUCTION!!!

That's right folks. Not a dime. Of course, none of the US news outlets would be able to tell you that. They are too busy with their "Showdown Iraq" programming for February sweeps month. So it took the BBC and other international news agencies to bring the facts to the attention of the US Congress.

Here is an article from BBC on it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2759789.stm

And this blurb from Reuters on some of the Senator's responses to the wee oversight:

Senators Rap Bush on Commitment to Afghanistan (Reuters)

Feb. 12 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saying the world was watching the U.S. commitment to post-Taliban Afghanistan as a sign of what would happen in post-Saddam Iraq, key senators on Wednesday criticized the Bush administration for glossing over difficulties it still faces in Afghanistan. The chairman and top Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the administration appeared to be losing interest in Afghanistan, even as neighboring countries vied for influence over regional warlords and Afghan President Hamid Karzai struggled to establish a central government. "I find a sense of quietude about this, as the ranking member pointed out, a sliding almost off the radar screen of the situation," Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, told administration officials after they gave fairly upbeat assessments of progress in Afghanistan.

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:03 PM

Gee -another political thread started by a "guest". Something seems familiar here.......

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:13 PM

Well, I DO see some improvement. This time, our Guest's initial message at least had some substantive information in it, and not just a link or a copy-pasted magazine article.
Still, wouldn't it be nice if people could realize they don't need to start a thread every time they have a thought?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:26 PM

So, if you are wondering who got the bucks, well...our international propaganda wing is happy to announce it here, at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty website:

Daddy Warbuck Donations to "Coalition of the Willing"

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:34 PM

You have a BS filter Wesley and Joe, and the ability to ignore the thread if you have no interest in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:37 PM

Joe - Is there any way we could combine all of these political posts into one massive sleeper of a thread ? That way I could ignore them all at once.

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:56 PM

Latest Government Terror Advice: Cover mouth with cloth and
don't allow your voice to be heard.

Same advice given to certain Mudcat "special case" guests with proclivity to talk politics with Bobert.

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: DougR
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 04:59 PM

Yep, Wesley, you got it. Probably the same guest posting all these things.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 05:35 PM

Here is an excerpt from an article in yesterday's Independent:

Kurdish leaders enraged by 'undemocratic' American plan to occupy Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, northern Iraq
17 February 2003



Rest of the article can be read here:

Independent article on post-war Iraq plan from Kurdish perspective

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I deleted most of this copy-paste non-music article. I have a BS filter - but I also have a "delete" button. Settle down, Guest, or you won't have thread creation privileges at all, and you may even force me to delete every one of your messages. I count at least 25 messages from you today (only one thread creation, however), and not a damn one has anything to do with music. I've received a number of complaints about you. Political discussion is fine - in moderation. Please don't force me to be repressive - I don't want to be. Join in the discussions and give us your opinion, but you have no need to say the same thing over and over again.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 05:37 PM

And a picture worth a thousand words...

http://www.lsj.com/galleries/2003protestmarch/13.html

Subject: RE: BS: Not a Dime from Bush for Afghanistan
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Feb 03 - 06:06 PM

Thus we breed the next generation of terrorists. We're getting pretty good at this. . . .

Don Firth